A jet-setting rubber duck is back home in Hampton, but its travels and sudden return after five years are still a mystery.

A jet-setting rubber duck is back home in Hampton, but its travels and sudden return after five years are still a mystery.

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Updated: 6:04 PM EDT Aug 12, 2016

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WEBVTT YEARS, AS THE FAMILY TRIES TO FIGURE OUT WHO TOOK IT. JENNIFER CROMPTON HAS THE STORY. REPORTER: WHEN EVER IT RAINED AN OVERSIZED RUBBER DUCK COULD BE SEEN FLOATING IN GIANT PUDDLES IN FRONT OF THEIR HOME IN HAMPTON, PUT THERE BY ITS THEN 13-YEAR-OLD OWNER. >> IT WAS JUST A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE, PEOPLE WOULD DRIVE THROUGH AND IT WAS CUTE. REPORTER: FIVE YEARS AGO IT WAS STOLEN, PLUCKED FROM THEIR MIDST. AND THEN? >> A FEW MONTHS LATER I GOT A POST CARD, IT SAID, FAMILY, I'VE DECIDED TO TRAVEL AND SEE THE WORLD. REPORTER: THE POST CARD SIGNED, LOVE GALE, INVITING THEM TO FOLLOW HER ON FACEBOOK. GALE DUCKY'S TRAVELS UNFOLDING BEFORE THEIR EYES AS THE POST CARDS CONTINUED. >> THE FIRST ONE WAS THE FROM KUWAIT CITY, THERE WAS ONE FROM PANAMA. ONE FROM AUSTRIA. REPORTER: FIVE YEARS OF EXOTIC LOCATIONS, HOME AND ABROAD, MOTHER AND DAUGHTER QUIZZING FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. >> WE DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS BEING PASSED AROUND, COULD HAVE BEEN. BUT IT LOOKS LIKE ON THE POST CARDS IT LOOKS LIKE ALL THE SAME HAND WRITING. REPORTER: THEN THIS WEEK A PHOTO OF GALE ON A SUITCASE. >> THE NEXT PICTURE I SAW LOOKED SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE MY SIDEWALK, AND MY DROOPING FLOWER. AND I'M LIKE WAIT A MINUTE, SHE'S HOME, SHE'S IN THE DRIVEWAY. REPORTER: THAT SUITCASE OVERFLOWING WITH TRAVEL MEMORABILIA. >> ONE WAS A GOOFY HAT FROM DISNEY, FIT HER PERFECTLY. REPORTER: BROCHURES, TRAIN TICKETS, EVEN A BOX OF GALE DUCKY BUSINESS CARDS. >> THEN IN THE BACK IN ALL DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK, AND MAGNET. GENIUS. REPORTER: THE SAME DAY THAT GALE DUCKY MYSTERIOUS RETURNED TO THE FAMILY, THEY WERE MADE ADMINISTRATORS OF HER FACEBOOK PAGE. >> SOMEONE WHO OBVIOUSLY HAS A BRIGHT SENSE OF HUMOR, HAS A LOT OF MONEY TO TRAVEL. REPORTER: AND NOW? >> SHE MIGHT TAKE A LITTLE TIME OFF AND GO BACK TO TAKING BUBBLE BATHS AND SLEEPING IN.

World-traveler rubber duck returns home

A jet-setting rubber duck is back home in Hampton, but its travels and sudden return after five years are still a mystery.